Conditional discrimination of one’s own behavior, contingency verbalization, and emergent conditional relationships

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ALVARO TORRES
FLORENTE LÓPEZ

Abstract

We analyzed the effects of pre-training in the identification and verbalization of contingent relationships and the concurrent naming of contingencies, on the acquisition of a conditional discrimination of the subject’s own behavior and on the formation of emergent conditional relationships indicative of equivalence. With this purpose, 40 college students were randomly assigned to one of four groups: Control, no training-no verbalization, training-no verbalization, no training-verbalization, and training-simultaneous verbalization. Differences were found in the number of trials required for the attainment of discrimination and in the correct number of probes of emergent conditional relations. These differences suggest that the self-descriptive verbal behavior promotes the acquisition of the conditional discrimination of the subject’s own behavior and of the formation of emergent conditional relations indicative of equivalence.

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TORRES, A., & LÓPEZ, F. (2011). Conditional discrimination of one’s own behavior, contingency verbalization, and emergent conditional relationships. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 30(2), 139–162. https://doi.org/10.5514/rmac.v30.i2.23284